35 Things.

I have been tagged to do this a lot of times, and I am finally commiting to it. I have to write 35 random facts you may or may not know about the conceptual puzzle that is, my being. So, buckle your seatbelts, friends. We're in for quite the ride for those of you who don't know me this well. Hahahha!

1. I love to laugh. I try to laugh at least everyday. Its a proven fact that it makes you healthier. Just saying. Maybe you should try it, eh? Push back the palsy, or the melenoma, or whatever with a little giggle, why don't you? And its very easy to make me laugh. However, I am NOT one of those stupid laughing girls. There is a difference between being a stupid laughing girl and being a girl who laughs at stupid things. Trust me.

2. When I feel an emotion too strong, I have to be outside. Sometimes I'm running, sometimes I'm just sitting, but I have to be outside. Its really a subconscious thing, but I guess if I had to put my finger on it... Maybe I feel like there is too much emotion to be contained by anything but the sky, you know? Like my house is too tight.

3. I actually happen to love seminary. It is one of the best things of my whole life. It literally changed my life in ninth grade, and it has been one of my top priorities/most prized possessions since then. I look forward to it every other day, and only miss it if I absolutely have to. I even take notes in there.

4. I love car rides. I like just being in the car while people drive around, or run errands. There can be music or silence, but either way, I love it. I will always go anywhere with you if you need a driving buddy, even to pick up the laundry.

5. I live for roadtrips. I love the bonding, and looking out the window at the scenery, even if scenery is only yellow sagebrush and dirt for miles. My brain always starts to imagine some story taking place out in the wilderness we pass, and I just let it play out in my head while we go. I love stopping and getting food, and getting gas, and reading to my mom while she drives.

6. My favorite pair of underwear are bright, bright yellow and they say "I LOVE EVERYTHING" on the front. On the butt, in tiny, tiny letters, it lists hundreds of things I love, i.e. puppies, ponies, cupcakes, summer, tans, etc. I KNOW RIGHT.

7. I like to do make people happy. So if I can do something to make something easier for someone else, I will. Sometimes, it makes thing harder for me, but I'll still try to do those things, because making people happy, makes me happy!

8. I once saw a girl who had a Jessica Alba body... and I was extremely jealous of her. Then she turned around. And I saw that even though she had like a Jessica Alba body? She had a Kevin Costner face. It happened last summer, but I still think about it and laugh at awkward times and no one gets why.

9. I love the piano. I love to listen to it, I love to look at it, I love to be near it.. I love to play it, though I really can't. I just play how I feel, when I feel like it. I will never be a great pianist, but I will always play.

10. I love to read. Not oh-come-through-my-window-and-smell-me-while-I-sleep-and-then-emotionally-abuse-me-and-endanger-my-life, teen fiction. All though.. I have fallen prey to it before. I really like books that make me think. I like book that are realistic. Not saying I don't like fantasy. I love it. I just like books where the people in them are real, they have flaws, they have talents, they are naive, they are suspicious, they are HUMAN. I.e. East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, Count of Monte Cristo, Great Expectations, Shakespeare, and so on.

11. I love too hard. A lot harder than normal people. However, I have recently come to realize it is a huge asset, NOT a flaw :)

12. I forgive easily. I will forgive people as soon as they apologize, usually before they do, and often those who never do. I just don't like to spend any part of my energy on holding a grudge or being angry. Waste of time!

13. I like being tan.

14. I detest both shoes and clothing, and make it a habit to wear as little of either as is socially appropriate at all times.

15. I love my sisters more than anything in the whole world. They are a huge chunk of my worry, my happiness, my being. There is not a single thing I wouldn't do for them. They make me who I am, and I don't know what I'd do without them.

16. I like to pee outside. So, sue me. I'm an animal.

17. Since I hang out with boys so much, when boys talk to me like I'm a girl they'd like to date, I don't know how to handle it. Literally, it is sort of pathetic. I can talk to anyone, I'm not shy. But sometimes, a cute boy will be like, "Hey, save me a dance at the dance" or, "hey, we should really hang out sometime" or "you're a really cute girl." And I'll give them a dead arm, give a hearty laugh, make a joke, and walk off.. Sigh....I'm going to die alone.

18. I eat cereal on my porch when I'm sad.

19. Sometimes, I talk to headstones of people I know who have passed on at the cemetary. It brings me more peace than I can describe.

20. I love camping.

21. Sometimes I watch movies and try to emulate things I like about a character in the movie. Ex: Elizabeth Bennet in the A & E five movie version, June Carter from Walk the Line, etc.

22. I love when people play with my hair or let me nap on them.

23. I can't think of a person in the whole world I honestly hate. Not even Satan for all his tempestuous ways, because I figure, hey someone's gotta do it, right?

24. I would hike every day if it were an option. I would probably also live in Southern Utah.

25. I did One Acts last weekend, and it was one of the most life-changing experiences I have ever had.

26. I have had a lot of self realizations lately, and you know what? I actually really like where I am. That's kind of nice.

27. I love little kids. Sword fighting with six year olds.. kind of how I spent my last summers. I am a little kid, but I also think I'm going to love being a mommy someday.

28. I wish everyone in the whole world could be as happy as I am.

29. My hair grows at the speed of a handicapped turtle, but I am trying to grow it out long. I just looooove really long hair.

30. I get really, really cuddly when I'm tired. Like... with complete strangers, pillows, animals.. so I generally try to be really rested when I hang out with people.

31. Summer is my favorite time of the whole year. There is for sure a reason I am a child of the summer.

32. Yellow is my favorite color.

33. I love taking pictures.

34. Water is my favorite beverage.

35. I don't like lip gloss, only chapstick.

Woof. Quite the journey, man. Quite the journey we just took together.